This is the other secret that real artists know and wannabe writers don’t. When we sit down each day and do our work, power concentrates around us. The Muse takes note of our dedication. She approves. We have earned favor in her sight. When we sit down and work, we become like a magnetized rod that attracts iron filings. Ideas come. Insights accrete.

Don't wait for someone else to validate you. Validate yourself.

Figure out what scares you the most and do that first.

Stay stupid. Follow your unconventional crazy heart.

When we see others beginning to live their authentic selves, it drives us crazy if we have not lived out our own.

To yield to Resistance deforms our spirit. It stunts us and makes us less than we are and were born to be.

The opposite of fear is love - love of the challenge, love of the work, the pure joyous passion to take a shot at our dream and see if we can pull it off.